The Glasse of Time: In the First AgeBernard Alsop, 1885 - 175 páginas |
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Página xiv
... woman framed , and man's most dismal fall , The tree of life , protected from the brute , The tree of knowledge , with her fatal fruit , — For fear the world should finally be ended , God's dearest daughters down in haste descended The ...
... woman framed , and man's most dismal fall , The tree of life , protected from the brute , The tree of knowledge , with her fatal fruit , — For fear the world should finally be ended , God's dearest daughters down in haste descended The ...
Página xvi
... woman to the waist and fair , But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast , a serpent armed With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell - hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud , and A ...
... woman to the waist and fair , But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast , a serpent armed With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of hell - hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberean mouths full loud , and A ...
Página xx
... woman which thou gavest me , A help most meet and comfort sweet to be , She of that tree did pluck but one in all , And brought it to me as a sacred ball , - The sight whereof , by her persuasion moved , Whom more than gold and all the ...
... woman which thou gavest me , A help most meet and comfort sweet to be , She of that tree did pluck but one in all , And brought it to me as a sacred ball , - The sight whereof , by her persuasion moved , Whom more than gold and all the ...
Página xxi
... woman's wit ; The touch thereof would sight and knowledge give Never to die , but still as Gods to live , By which enticements snared in his trap , He shaked the tree , and up I held my lap . That plum alone which fell into the same I ...
... woman's wit ; The touch thereof would sight and knowledge give Never to die , but still as Gods to live , By which enticements snared in his trap , He shaked the tree , and up I held my lap . That plum alone which fell into the same I ...
Página xxii
... woman's seed in just revenge again , Thy head shall break , and cursed action's bane , When that sweet babe shall to the world be born That heaven and earth with glory shall adorn . O silly woman to be thus beguiled ! In sorrow now thou ...
... woman's seed in just revenge again , Thy head shall break , and cursed action's bane , When that sweet babe shall to the world be born That heaven and earth with glory shall adorn . O silly woman to be thus beguiled ! In sorrow now thou ...
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accurst Adam and Eve admired amongst angels Apostacie art thou aspiring towers beast behold birth blood bloud blurre born brest brothers blood brought Caine canst cast chaste Christ Church clouds cursed curst damn'd damned dayes dear dearest delight descended Devil didst divine doth Earth envious Envy eternal Eve and Adam eyes fall fame farre father fearful fell foes foul fram'd fruit glorious glory Gods goodly grace ground Habels hand hast thou hateful hath heart heavenly heavens heere Hell holy judgement Justice Lamech land Lincoln's Inn liv'd live lofty Lord lurke mercy mind monster mount Muse never nurst o'er Paradise Paradise Lost peace plast Prince race rest Sabaoth sacred seed shalt shew sight sins soul staind stand Staple Inne stept sweet thee thine THOMAS PEYTON thou hast thought thy body thy face tree truth unto Urania vile walls Whilst woful wonder word
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Página xix - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Página xvi - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss...
Página xviii - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable Shape. The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast — a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Página xv - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página xvi - And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página xx - For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Página xx - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página xxvi - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but heavenly born, Before the hills appear'd or fountain flow'd, Thou with eternal Wisdom didst converse, Wisdom thy sister, and with her didst play In presence of the Almighty Father, pleased With thy celestial song.
Página xvii - The Mother of Mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory...
Página xxxii - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.